Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballymee, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymee
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.22123, -8.62106
- SMR number
- CO017-072001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In tillage, atop rise. Depicted on 1842 OS 6-inch map as hachured roughly circular area; on 1906 and 1937 OS 6-inch maps as arc N->SE incorporated into field fence system, with circle completed by fosse SE->N on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace of site. Circular enclosure visible in aerial photograph (GSIAP, R689) as cropmark of bank; subcircular enclosure visible in aerial photograph (CASAP) as cropmark of fosse. Field system (CO017-07204-), circular enclosure (CO017-07203-) and enclosure (CO017-07202-) in same field.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.